I found this list online, and since I'm trying to listen to full albums at the moment, I thought this would be a good way to go.
My plan is to work my way through it, though probably in a random order.
Maybe someone else wants to join me, or maybe you have already listened to a bunch of them.
http://www.discogs.com/lists/1001-Al...e/18222?page=1
This is not an offical review thread, just a bit of chit chat.
Browsing through the list I notice the lack of Heavy Metal there as well as lack of classical. Classical is normal because they are not "albums". But metal is seriously underrepresented there. Some essential bands like Morbid Angel, Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Blind Guardian, Kamelot, Ensiferum, Accept, X-Japan, Helloween, Bathory, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Manowar, Celtic Frost among others. That list only includes British/American metal bands which are only 1/4 of all metal bands (25,000 metal bands hail from US+UK+Canada, according to metal archives, worldwide is over 100,000).
They fail to include the best albums of the couple metal bands that are there as well, Heaven and Hell, widely regarded as Black Sabbath's best, is not there, neither is Powerslave, regarded by many as Iron Maiden's best or Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny. Sepultura shows up with 2 albums there, too bad one is awful and the other is mediocre but they have produced better music before.
Metal though is essentially a "medium" in itself, we have mainstream popular music, we have classical music and we have metal. There is some overlap but not much, metal fans don't listen to mainstream pop music or classical, mainstream pop music fans don't listen to classical or metal, classical fans don't listen to much pop music or metal.